The Bird House

The village farmhouse
was build with an outside
gallery and a roofed terrace

The couple that lived
in it were such that 
given the opportunity
they would act on or
gladly offer the gift of
a small kindness

The people saw 
the swallows fly in
searching for a place
to nest a new home

Near the entrance

under
the roofed terrace
was 

a convex lamp
and that
decided the swallows
would be the base
for their nest

The man and wife
welcomed the swallows
and saw the birds
building their nest
on the white glass ball
with mud and twigs

The people in the house
watched with care
the work and lives
of all the smaller wildlife
in their courtyard

The couple stopped 
using the lamp 
as it had now become
a swallow's home

while

their indoor cats too

watched with interest

from behind the glass

Yet there was
one threat
for the two birds
and their nest
it was one of their own
another swallow
that flew in to disturb
the peace
under the roofed terrace

The couple in the house
looked at the fight
and the flight 
to and fro
they -too- worried
for the eggs
in the nest and
thinking that nature
sometimes resembled
once too often 
human life

But -also- wondered
the people
on the third swallow
wether it was to be hated
for trying to join
the couple on the nest
or to be pitied
for not being included
by the couple
on the nest

The people 

in the house recalled 

some stories 
of old
of Adam and Eve 
and
a snake and an apple

and

of Cain and Abel

the fighting brothers

and

of Sarai and Hagar

the quarrelling mothers

and 

the couple wondered
if there was
any resemblance 
with 
being kicked out 
of paradise....